BAGHDAD - Five hundred prisoners walked free from the U.S. military's Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq on Tuesday, released in a goodwill gesture to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The detainees were presented with a Koran and $25 on their release which marked Eid al-Fitr celebrations. Their release was in addition to 1,000 prisoners set free in October at the start of the month of fasting.

Sorry for locking you up in a torture chamber with no actual evidence. Here's a pack of baseball cards. What a great gesture of humanitarianism.

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Wrong on both counts. The torture the inmates endured was nothing more than an isolated incident involving some very sadistic people who had a funny way of celebrating a 21st birthday.

There was plenty of evidence against these people. Abu Ghraib is not a prisoner of war camp or an insurgent prison. It is a normal, run-of-the-mill prison. You know, the kind with convicted criminals in them. The inmates at Abu Ghraib were never found fighting Americans. They were found doing things like theft, murder, armed robbery, rape, and other things you normally get thrown in prison for.

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